THE CONCESSIONS AND AGREEMENTS
OF THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST JERSEY
Part V: And that the planting of the said Province ...
And that the planting of the said Province may be more
speedily promoted.
i. Wee doe hereby Graunt unto all persons who have alreadie
Adventured to the Province of New Cesaria or new Jersey
or shall transport themselves or Servants before the
first day of January which shall be in the yeare of our
Lord 1665. These following proporc'ons viz. to every
ffreeman that shall goe with the first Governor from the
Port when he imbarques (or shall meet him at the
Randevouze hee appoints) for the Settlement of a
Plantac'on there; armed with a good Muskett boare twelve
bulletts to the Pound, with Tenn pounds of powder and
Twenty pound of Bulletts, with bandeleers and match
convenient, and with six months provision for his own
person arriving there 150 acres of Land English measure
And for every able man Servant that he shall carry with
him armed and provided as aforesaid and arriving there,
the like quantity of 150 acres of land English measure,
And whoever shall send Servants at that time shall for
every able man Servant hee or she soe sends armed and
provided as aforesaid and arriving there the like
quantity of 150 acres And for every weaker Servant or
Slave male or female exceeding the age of ffourteen
yeares which any one shall send or carry arriveing there
75 acres of Land And to every Christian Servant exceeding
the age aforesaid after the expiracon of their time of
service 75 acres of Land for their own use.
2. ITEM to every Master or Mistres that shall goe before the
first day of January which shalbe in the yeare of our
Lord 1665 [1665-6] 120 acres of land and for every able
man Servant that hee or she shall carry or send armed and
provided as aforesaid and arriving within the time
aforesaid the like quantity of 120 acres of land, and for
every weaker Servant or Slave male or female exceeding
the age of 14 yeares arriving there 60 acres of land, and
to every Christian Servant to their owne use and behoofe
60 acres of land.
3. ITEM to every ffreeman and ffreewoman [who] shall arrive
in the said Province armed and provided as aforesaid
within the second year from the first day of January 1665
to the first of Jan'y 1666 with an intenc'on to plant 90
acres of land English measure, and for every able man
Servant that hee or she shall carry or send armed and
provided as aforesaid 90 acres of land like measure.
4. ITEM for every weaker Servant or slave aged as aforesaid
that shall be soe carried or sent thither with the second
yeare as aforesaid 45 acres of land of like measure And
to every Christian Servant that shall arrive the second
yeare 45 acres of land of like measure after the
expiracon of his or their time of Service for their own
use and behoofe.
5. ITEM to every ffreeman and ffreewoman Armed and provided
as aforesaid That shall goe and arrive with an intencon
to plant within the third yeare from January 1666 to
January 1667 60 acres of land of like measure And for
every able man Servant that he or they shall carry or
send within the said time armed and provided as aforesaid
the like quantitie of 60 acres of land, And for every
weaker Servant or Slave aged as aforesaid that hee or
they shall carry or send within the Third yeare 30 acres
of land and to every Christian Servant soe carried or
sent in the Third yeare 30 acres of land of like measure
after the expiracon of his or their time of Service. All
which Land and all other that shall be possessed in the
said Province are to be held on the same termes and
Condic'ons as is before menc'oned and as hereafter in the
following Paragraphs is more at lar[g]e expressed.
PROVIDED alwaies that the before menc'oned Land and all
other whatsoever that shall be taken up and soe setled in
the said Province shall afterward from time to time for
the space of thirteen yeares from the date hereof be held
upon the Condicons aforesaid continuing one able man
Servant or two such weaker Servants as aforesaid on every
100 acres a Master or Mistres shall possesse; besides
what was graunted for his or her own person; In failer of
which upon notificac'on to the present occupant or his
assignes there shall be three yeares given to such for
their compleating the said number of persons, or for
their Sale or other disposure of such part of their Lands
as are not soe peopled within which time of three yeares
if any person holding any Lands shall faile by himselfe
his Agents executors or Assignes or some other way to
provide such number of persons, unles the generall
Assembly shall without respect to poverty judge it was
impossible for the party soe failing to keep or procure
his or her number of Servants to be provided as
aforesaid; In such case wee the Lords to have power of
disposeing of soe much of such Lands as shall not be
planted with its due number of persons as aforesaid to
some other that will plant the same, PROVIDED alwaies
that noe person arriving into the said Province with
purpose to settle (they being Subjects or naturalized as
aforesaid) bee denied a Grant of such proporc'ons of Land
as at the time of their arrivall there, are due to
themselves or Servants by Concession from us as
aforesaid, but have full licence to take up and settle
the same in such Order and manner as is granted or
prescribed; All Lands (notwithstanding the powers in the
Assembly aforesaid) shall be taken up by Warrant from the
Governor, and confirmed by the Governor and Councell
under a Seale to be provided for that purpose in such
Order and method as shalbe set down in this declaracon
and more at large in the instructions to the Governor and
Councell.